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Transience (short Story By Arthur Clarke)
"Transience" is a science fiction short story by English writer Arthur C. Clarke, first published in 1949 in the magazine ''Startling Stories''. It was later collected in ''The Other Side of the Sky'' and ''The Nine Billion Names of God''. Summary The story is told through scenes of three children playing on the same beach on Earth, but across vast gulfs of time. Development Clarke wrote that the story was inspired by one of A. E. Housman's poems as well as his childhood memories. Release "Transience" was first published in the July 1949 issue of ''Startling Stories''. The Beechhurst Press later published in the anthology volume ''Looking Forward'' in 1953. The story was also published in collections of some of Clark's work such as 1958's ''The Other Side of the Sky'' and 1961's ''From the Ocean, from the Stars''. In 2001 the University of Western Australia Press published "Transience" in the anthology ''Earth is But a Star: Excursions Through Science Fiction to the Fa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur C
Arthur is a common male given name of Brythonic origin. Its popularity derives from it being the name of the legendary hero King Arthur. The etymology is disputed. It may derive from the Celtic ''Artos'' meaning “Bear”. Another theory, more widely believed, is that the name is derived from the Roman clan '' Artorius'' who lived in Roman Britain for centuries. A common spelling variant used in many Slavic, Romance, and Germanic languages is Artur. In Spanish and Italian it is Arturo. Etymology The earliest datable attestation of the name Arthur is in the early 9th century Welsh-Latin text ''Historia Brittonum'', where it refers to a circa 5th to 6th-century Briton general who fought against the invading Saxons, and who later gave rise to the famous King Arthur of medieval legend and literature. A possible earlier mention of the same man is to be found in the epic Welsh poem ''Y Gododdin'' by Aneirin, which some scholars assign to the late 6th century, though this is still a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Startling Stories
''Startling Stories'' was an American pulp science fiction magazine, published from 1939 to 1955 by publisher Ned Pines' Standard Magazines. It was initially edited by Mort Weisinger, who was also the editor of ''Thrilling Wonder Stories'', Standard's other science fiction title. ''Startling'' ran a lead novel in every issue; the first was '' The Black Flame'' by Stanley G. Weinbaum. When Standard Magazines acquired ''Thrilling Wonder'' in 1936, it also gained the rights to stories published in that magazine's predecessor, ''Wonder Stories'', and selections from this early material were reprinted in ''Startling'' as "Hall of Fame" stories. Under Weisinger the magazine focused on younger readers and, when Weisinger was replaced by Oscar J. Friend in 1941, the magazine became even more juvenile in focus, with clichéd cover art and letters answered by a "Sergeant Saturn". Friend was replaced by Sam Merwin Jr. in 1945, and Merwin was able to improve the quality of the fictio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Science Fiction
Science fiction (sometimes shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel universes, extraterrestrial life, sentient artificial intelligence, cybernetics, certain forms of immortality (like mind uploading), and the singularity. Science fiction predicted several existing inventions, such as the atomic bomb, robots, and borazon, whose names entirely match their fictional predecessors. In addition, science fiction might serve as an outlet to facilitate future scientific and technological innovations. Science fiction can trace its roots to ancient mythology. It is also related to fantasy, horror, and superhero fiction and contains many subgenres. Its exact definition has long been disputed among authors, critics, scholars, and readers. Science fiction, in literature, film, television, and other media, has beco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Other Side Of The Sky
''For the Memoir by Farah Ahmedi, See The Other Side of the Sky: A Memoir'' ''The Other Side of the Sky'' is a collection of science fiction short stories by English writer Arthur C. Clarke, originally published in 1958. The stories all originally appeared in a number of different publications. Contents *Bibliographical Note *" The Nine Billion Names of God" *"Refugee" *The Other Side of the Sky (vignettes): **"Special Delivery" **"Feathered Friends" **"Take a Deep Breath" **"Freedom of Space" **"Passer-by" **"The Call of the Stars" *"The Wall of Darkness" *"Security Check" *"No Morning After" * Venture to the Moon (vignettes): **"The Starting Line" **"Robin Hood, F.R.S." **"Green Fingers" **"All That Glitters" **"Watch This Space" **"A Question of Residence" *"Publicity Campaign" *"All the Time in the World" *"Cosmic Casanova" *" The Star" *"Out of the Sun" *"Transience" *"The Songs of Distant Earth" Reception Floyd C. Gale wrote that "too many rick endingsare more than ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Nine Billion Names Of God (collection)
''The Nine Billion Names of God'' (1967) is a collection of science fiction short stories by Arthur C. Clarke. According to Clarke's 1972 book ''The Lost Worlds of 2001'', the book comprises his own selection of favorites. Contents This collection includes: * "The Nine Billion Names of God" * "I Remember Babylon" * "Trouble with Time" * "Rescue Party" * " The Curse" * " Summertime on Icarus" * " Dog Star" * "Hide and Seek" * "Out of the Sun" * "The Wall of Darkness" * "No Morning After" * " The Possessed" * " Death and the Senator" * "Who's There?" * "Before Eden" * " Superiority" * "A Walk in the Dark" * "The Call of the Stars" * "The Reluctant Orchid" * " Encounter at Dawn" * "If I Forget Thee, Oh Earth..." * "Patent Pending" * " The Sentinel" * "Transience" * "The Star ''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things already mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the def ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Looking Forward (anthology)
''Looking Forward'' is an anthology of science fiction stories edited by Milton Lesser, published in hardcover in 1953 by Beechhurst Press and reprinted in the British market in 1955 by Cassell & Company. The anthology was particularly poorly received, and carried the unusually high cover price, for its day, of $5.00. Its contents include one of the few uncollected and otherwise unanthologized stories by Walter M. Miller, Jr. Contents * "Science Fiction Comes of Age", Milton Lesser * "The Man from Outside", Jack Williamson ( ''Astounding'' 1951) * "We Kill People", Lewis Padgett (''Astounding'' 1946) * "Win the World", Chad Oliver (''Startling Stories'' 1952) * "The Little Creeps", Walter M. Miller, Jr. ('' Amazing'' 1951) * "Highway", Robert A. W. Lowndes ''Science Fiction Quarterly'' 1942 * "Exile", Edmond Hamilton (''Super Science Stories'' 1943) * "The Power" Murray Leinster (''Astounding'' 1945) * "The Man in the Moon", Mack Reynolds (''Amazing'' 1950) * "Production Test", Ray ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Western Australia Press
UWA Publishing, formerly known as the Text Books Board and then University of Western Australia Press, is a Western Australian publisher established in 1935 by the University of Western Australia. It produces a range of non-fiction and fiction titles. Background and establishment Australia's first scholarly publisher was Melbourne University Press, established in 1922.Fitzgerald, Criena (2005) ''A press in Isolation: University of Western Australia Press, 1935-2004'' Crawley, W.A.: University of Western Australia Press The University of Queensland proposed an Australia-wide university press at the 1932 Universities Conference, but the Melbourne press did not support this idea. University students' ongoing difficulties with obtaining textbooks were common at the time, and the Australian universities had different ways of addressing the issue. During the 1920s, the University of Western Australia (UWA) appointed several booksellers, who each reported that selling textbooks was no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gary Westfahl
Gary Wesley Westfahl (born May 7, 1951) is an American scholar of science fiction. He has written reviews for the ''Los Angeles Times'', ''The Internet Review of Science Fiction'' and Locus Online. He worked at the University of California, Riverside until 2011 and is now an adjunct professor at the University of La Verne. Personal life Westfahl was born in Washington, DC, in 1951. In 1986 he graduated from Claremont University with a PhD in English. He currently resides in Claremont, California, with his wife Lynne and cats Darwin and Skippy. His daughter, Allison, is a U.S. Attorney, his son-in-law, Steven Kong, is a doctor, and his son, Jeremy Anson, teaches mathematics at UC Irvine and has retired as a professional '' Super Smash Bros. Melee'' player known as Fly Amanita. Work Westfahl coordinates English programs at the university's Learning Center and "has written or edited 24 books of scholarship on science fiction". He teaches science fiction, but has not written any ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terraforming
Terraforming or terraformation ("Earth-shaping") is the hypothetical process of deliberately modifying the atmosphere, temperature, surface topography or ecology of a planet, moon, or other body to be similar to the environment of Earth to make it habitable for humans to live on. The concept of terraforming developed from both science fiction and actual science. Carl Sagan, an astronomer, proposed the planetary engineering of Venus in 1961, which is considered one of the first accounts of the concept. The term was coined by Jack Williamson in a science-fiction short story ("Collision Orbit") published in 1942 in '' Astounding Science Fiction'', although terraforming in popular culture may predate this work. Even if the environment of a planet could be altered deliberately, the feasibility of creating an unconstrained planetary environment that mimics Earth on another planet has yet to be verified. While Venus, Earth, Mars, and even the Moon have been studied in relation to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pamela Zoline
Pamela Zoline (or Pamela Lifton-Zoline; born 1941) is an American writer and painter, born in Chicago, living in the United States in Telluride, Colorado. Background Among science fiction fans, she is known for her controversial short story "The Heat Death of the Universe", published in 1967 in ''New Worlds''. Although she went on to publish further stories in magazines including ''The New SF'', ''Likely Stories'', and ''Interzone'', Zoline remains best known for "Heat Death", which has been frequently reprinted since its original publication.Papke, Mary E"A Space of Her Own: Pamela Zoline's 'The Heat Death of the Universe' In ''Daughters of Earth'', ed. Justine Larbalestier. Wesleyan: 2006. Zoline is admired for her experimental approach to both the form of the short story and the genre of science fiction, especially for using the language of science to interrogate the scientific world view. "Heat Death" is structured in a loosely encyclopedic style, with 54 numbered paragraphs n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Bedford
David Vickerman Bedford (4 August 1937 – 1 October 2011) was an English composer and musician. He wrote and played both popular and classical music. He was the brother of the conductor Steuart Bedford, the grandson of the composer, painter and author Herbert Bedford and the composer Liza Lehmann, and the son of Leslie Bedford, an inventor, and Lesley Duff, a soprano opera singer. From 1969 to 1981, Bedford was Composer in Residence at Queen's College, London. From 1968 to 1980, he taught music in a number of London secondary schools. In 1996 he was appointed Composer in Association with the English Sinfonia. In 2001 he was appointed Chairman of the Performing Right Society, having previously been Deputy chairman. Early life and career Bedford was born in Hendon, London to Leslie Bedford, the director of engineering for the guided weapons division of the British Aircraft Corporation, and Lesley Duff, a soprano singer who worked with the English Opera Group. He was e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Short Stories By Arthur C
Short may refer to: Places * Short (crater), a lunar impact crater on the near side of the Moon * Short, Mississippi, an unincorporated community * Short, Oklahoma, a census-designated place People * Short (surname) * List of people known as the Short Arts, entertainment, and media * Short film, a cinema format (also called film short or short subject) * Short story, prose generally readable in one sitting * ''The Short-Timers'', a 1979 semi-autobiographical novel by Gustav Hasford, about military short-timers in Vietnam Brands and enterprises * Short Brothers, a British aerospace company * Short Brothers of Sunderland, former English shipbuilder Computing and technology * Short circuit, an accidental connection between two nodes of an electrical circuit * Short integer, a computer datatype Finance * Short (finance), stock-trading position * Short snorter, a banknote signed by fellow travelers, common during World War II Foodstuffs * Short pastry, one which is rich in butt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
